Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 3 Installation Guide
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Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 3-1.04 Installation guide Written by the Emmabuntüs Collective under Creative Commons License : Emmabuntüs Collective BY-SA Debian 10 Buster Updated : Apr 10, 2021 Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 3-1.04 Installation Guide First release : Apr-23-2019, updated : Apr 10, 2021 Lead author : Emmabuntüs Collective The goal of this tutorial is to present the prerequisites, the means and the procedures in order to smoothly install the GNU/Linux Emmabuntüs DE (Debian Edition) 3 distribution, which is designed for the reuse of computers. Thus, you will be able to use your hardware equipment longer, by migrating serenely from Windows to Linux. Table of contents 2 1 - Introduction Emmabuntüs is a GNU/Linux distribution. This project was launched in the year 2011 by the Emmabuntüs Collective. Is is a comprehensive work-and-leisure-station ready for immediate use, designed to dramatically simplify the task of refurbishing the used computers given to the Emmaüs and other humanitarian communities, as well as to ease the GNU/Linux discovery by the beginners, and to extend the life of the hardware. This tutorial explain how to install Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 3, which is based on Debian Buster XFCE/LXQt. We suggest to the beginners that before performing the migration to a GNU/Linux distribution, they read this introduction to a L inux migration , as well as the beginner’s handbook (aka Debian without headaches). 2 - Prerequisites The following prerequisites are mandatory in order to properly initiate the installation : • The hardware configuration should feature a 2.0 GHz processor, a disk drive with 40 GB of free space and at least 1024 MB of RAM. • Download the 3.0 GB IS O image from the web page dedicated to Downloads. • Check the MD5SUM of this ISO file. • Record this ISO file on a DVD, using the “Burn Image” function of your favorite CD/DVD burning software. • Alternatively, you can transfer this ISO file on a bootable USB key. This is the preferred solution due to its speed during the installation phase. See Chapter 6 for more explanations. • It is also advisable to run first a live session in order to verify that there are no hardware compatibility issues (1 GB of RAM is recommended for a life DVD or USB session). Since version 3-1.00, it is possible to easily install Emmabuntüs during a “live mode”, session by using the Calamares tool. Since version 3-1.02, you can use the LXQt desktop environment in place of the LXDE one included in the previous versions of Emmabuntüs. Since version 3-1.03, you can easily install Emmabuntüs by using the “OEM” mode available within the Calamares tool. This kind of installation is recommended when selling or donating computers to third parties, in order for them to fine tune their system configuration at the first boot, when they can define : the language, the keyboad mapping, their password, and then finalize the post-installation process. Table of contents 3 3 - Installation Before installing any operating system installation on a computer, we strongly suggest that you test it first in a Live Mode session by using the USB key. See Chapter 6 on how to create a bootable Live_CD USB key. Insert the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 3 DVD in the media reader or plug the live-USB in, and then restart your computer. 3.1 - Starting up The computer BIOS must be configured to from the DVD or from the USB key. On some computers, pressing the F8, F9 or F12 keys during the boot process will allow you to choose the right device to boot from. For more information, we suggest that you read the pages dedicated to the startup process on the Debian and Ubuntu sites. Select the installation language of your choice by using the navigation arrows : On the next screen, you are given the choice either to try or to directly install Emmabuntüs : Table of contents 4 If you like to install it directly the Debian way, you can click on “Install Emmabuntus in Graphic mode”, and go to the section 3. 3 In this section we are going to use the Calamares installation by going through the “Live Session” mode. So we select first the line “Try Emmabuntüs without installing (Localization Support)” which gives us the opportunity to select immediately the installation language. We select the line “English (en)” and then Enter. Once the Live Session is ready after screens configurations of desktop, dock, etc, we double click on the Calamares icon to launch it, and you can look at the install continuation in the following chapter. Table of contents 5 3.2 - The Calamares Installer To launch the Calamares install, please double-click on the Calamares icon located on the Emmabuntüs desktop : This action opens a window to select the in stallation mode of Calamares, that is either its classic mode, see the following chapters, or the OEM mode, see the OEM mode installation chapter in the section 3.2.8. Table of contents 6 3.2.1 - Language selection We click on the drop down arrow and select the British English languages: The correct language being selected we can click on “Next”. Table of contents 7 3.2.2 - Location setting The installer will propose New York, USA, by default. You can click directly on the map to select your location, or alternatively, by clicking on the drop down arrow we select Europa as Region, Table of contents 8 and then London as Time-Zone : And when the location is correct, we can click on “Next”. Table of contents 9 3.2.3 - Keyboard setting We are happy with the Keyboard default here and we can click on Next. 3.2.4 - Partitioning Here we simply select the “Replace Partition”, which will overwrite a previously installed Debian system. Swap unchanged. If you are a beginner, we strongly suggest that you select the “Erase disk” option, which will use automatically your whole disk capacity. Table of contents 10 3.2.5 - User setting In the window we enter our name, the login name, the computer name, our password (twice). We can select to login automatically (no password required for login), and to use the same password for all the administrative tasks. 3.2.6 - Summary The next screen is a nice summary of the various settings that will take place during the installation, except if you go back of some modification, or click on the Cancel button to abort the operation and return to the live session. We click on Install. Table of contents 11 3.2.7 - Installation During the installation, a slide show informs about the specificities of Emmabuntüs, and about the actions of the Emmabuntüs collective, and the friendly associations with whom we collaborate. Table of contents 12 When the installation is complete, click Finish to restart the computer. 3.2.8 - Installation in “OEM” mode The OEM mode installation allows you to pre-configure a computer, without totally completing its install, in order to allow the future end-user to customize the system during the first boot , when he/she can select the language, the keyboard mapping, its geographic position, its full name as well as its login name and password. This installation mode is of particuler interest in the frame of an “Install Party” or when selling computers to associations or companies refurbishing computer equipment. The Calamares OEM install, is no other than a classic one, but split in two steps : • First, Calamares is launched to pre-configure the computer, by performing the disk partitioning, the system installation and the OEM accoun t creation. This step is like a classic Calamares install, except that the “oem” account is created by default, with the password “oem”. • Then occurs the computer post-installation, via the OEM account, with, potentially, a system customization, and then, always through the desktop Calamares icon, the finalization of the system configuration to be used by the end user. The new window shown below allows you to copy the customization, done for the OEM account, to the end-user, and to enter the name of your association to identify the hardware. Table of contents 13 The fact to also copy the OEM post-installation configuration, will bypass this step during the end-user creation. It will inherit directly of the entire OEM configuration. • The installation is completed by the end-user, through the second launch of Calamares in automatic mode, in order for him/her to personalize the system and to define the user login name and password. This part of the installation process behaves like a classic Calamares install, except that there is no disk partitioning to be executed, since it was already done during the first step, and that the system is already install on the computer. Table of contents 14 3.3 - Debian Classic Installation After the boot we selected the “Install Emmabuntüs in Graphic Mode” 3.3.1 - Language selection Select the system language, your location and the keyboard configuration : Table of contents 15 3.3.2 - Network The installation program looks at the various hardware components to detect if there is an Internet connection capability. You can also skip the Internet connection step and proceed with the installation without connection. If you are connected with an Ethernet cable, the connection will be automatic, and if you have a WiFi card, you will get the choice of the connection and you will possibly be asked to accept a license. Table of contents 16 Then you are asked to enter the machine host name (this name will be visible by the other machines on your local network) : 3.3.3 - Users Here you are asked to enter the root (administrator) password.